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By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The Gilded Age, a term coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 satirical novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, refers to a transformative period in U.S. history from approximately 1870 to 1900. It was characterized
Is capitalism falling out of favor? Jay L. Zagorsky and H. Sami Karaca, faculty at the Questrom School of Business and the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, conducted a research study to answer that very question. Aided by AI, the professors,
Michael Salinger, the Jacqueline and Arthur Bahr Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, is eager to educate the next generation of leaders through his innovative new course at BU. Capitalism: Justifications and Cinematic Impressions, a course that
How do, can and should companies balance short-term pressures with long-term interests? Thursday April 10 & Friday April 11, 2025 Boston University’s Questrom School of Business & WBUR’s City Space As part of Questrom’s new Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society, the seniors in
Join WBUR from May 29 – 31, 2025 for a weekend celebrating WBUR’s 75th anniversary and featuring speakers such as Ina Garten, Roxane Gay, Ira Glass, Jamelle Bouie, Busy Philipps, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and many more. Full schedule to be released
Rena Conti, Associate Professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business attended the White House Cell and Gene Therapy Forum on January 8th to share her research and find solutions to advance access to cell and gene therapy. As a health
When measuring climate impact, #CO2 is the most important #GHG and, according to Robert Kleinberg, we’re able to account for those emissions pretty accurately. But methane? Despite being the 2nd most important #GHG, it’s much, much harder to measure. If you missed our April lunch seminar about this topic, you can
Almost three years ago, IMAP submitted comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to their draft proposal to regulate climate disclosures. As of March 6, 2024, the SEC has finalized their ruling and will now require businesses to disclose certain climate-related information.
For our April 4 lunch seminar, we’re hosting IMAP Senior Fellow, Robert Kleinberg, to talk about the need to adopt measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) standards for embodied greenhouse gases. This talk will focus on methane emissions. Get more info and register here.
Our March 21 lunch seminar is about how to better evaluate the pharma industry’s efforts to improve global access to medicines and other health products. Peter Rockers, of the Boston University School of Public Health will talk about his project to develop a framework for
Our March lunch seminar is all about the pharmaceutical industry’s role in supporting universal health coverage. BU associate professor Peter Rockers will discuss his work on creating a process to engage stakeholders in this effort. Check out the details here and join us online or
We live in a remarkable time filled with incredible new innovations. But are they delivering what they should? Join speakers Daron Acemoglu, Jim Rebitzer, and Bob Rebitzer in a conversation moderated by Tim Simcoe to discuss these very questions.
